Fair rent and legal fiction : housing rent legislation in a capitalist society

anyone who proposes the taking of economic steps to abolish rent surely ought to know a little more about house rent than that it represents the tribute which the tenant pays to the perpetual title of capital. Engels (1970b, p.80) 14. Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Rent Control, Cmd 6621 (H.M.S.O., 1945) appendix II. Front Matter....Pages i-xix The Sociology of Law: A Suitable Case for Treatment....Pages 1-50 The Housing Question 1900–70: Production and Legal Reproduction....Pages 51-138 Fair Rent and Legal Fiction: Housing Finance and The Housing Finance Act....Pages 139-180 Housing Rent Legislation and the Fractions of Capital....Pages 181-204 Back Matter....Pages 205-240